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Re: Swerve Drivetrain.

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Originally Posted by PAR_WIG1350 View Post
:After venturing into the 'branch' of swerve that I have, It is difficult to look at front/back // left/right linked swerve and say that it is even approaching all of the benefits that a fully functional swerve drive train has to offer.
A good point. While it's unlikely anyone would build a tank/skid steer drivetrain without a software/control system capable of exploiting all its physical capabilities, the same cannot be said of fancier systems like swerve and omni/meccanum. It's entirely possible to build one of these that exploits some, but not all, of what's physically possible with its hardware.

You can look at a 6wd, tank, etc machine and know pretty well what kind of maneuvers it's going to be able to make (speed aside). You can't make the same assessment of a swerve or meccanum platform without knowing what's in the software.